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NASA's Hubble captures picture of big star 'Herschel 36' that is 32 times the size of the Sun

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NASA has recently shared an image that showed the giant star Herschel 36, at the centre of the Lagoon Nebula. The star is '200,000 times brighter than the Sun' and is located around 4,000 light-years away. Sharing the mesmerizing image on Instagram NASA wrote, "This massive star is still young in a cosmic sense, roughly 1 million years old, and is throwing off its natal cocoon of material – ionized gasses like hydrogen and nitrogen".